I've never felt like my career has been on fire.

My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.

Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the room at him.

I had interest in acting. I started as a drama major in college. I got to school and said, "What am I going to do with this?" But I didn't know anybody in the business, and it seemed like - I don't know. I had a teacher who said "Less than 1 percent of you will ever make a living being an actor." That was how we opened the semester.

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.